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CVE-2016-5343

CRITICAL

9.8

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.1670%

EPSS Percentile29.80th

PublishedOct 10, 2016

Last ModifiedMay 6, 2026

Vulnerability Description

drivers/soc/qcom/qdsp6v2/voice_svc.c in the QDSP6v2 Voice Service driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a write request, as demonstrated by a voice_svc_send_req buffer overflow.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

💻

Linux

Linux Kernel

>= 3.0 and <= 3.19.8

References & Advisories

🔗 http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html

🔗 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93330

🔗 https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=6927e2e0af4dcac357be86ba563c9ae12354bb08

🔗 https://www.codeaurora.org/multiple-memory-corruption-issues-write-operation-qdsp6v2-voice-service-driver-cve-2016-5343

🔗 http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-10-01.html

🔗 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93330

🔗 https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=6927e2e0af4dcac357be86ba563c9ae12354bb08

🔗 https://www.codeaurora.org/multiple-memory-corruption-issues-write-operation-qdsp6v2-voice-service-driver-cve-2016-5343

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